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It does sort of defeat the object. The powers that be, do not want staff accessing certain data outside of school, i.e Sims data!! Although They can email, memory stick etc...as I have told them repeatedly..,

Hi all Have set up direct access on 2012, working OK. My issue is, I need to restrict access to the domain while users are offsite i.e. at home. So when they are in school the gpo applies and all is well. When they are at home the school gpo still applies! I thought, I could edit the DirectAccess client setting gpo to restrict their offsite connection?? I tried a test on that gpo but it did not have any effect. Any ideas? Thanks

We use office 2010 and 2013. When a class of say 25-30 try to open an office doc such as a powerpoint template, it will take minutes for the doc to open for any of them. This only happens when they all try at approx the same time. The doc may only be 100k in size so its not a network issue as such, they all have new i5 pc's 1gb network to switch and 4gb to storage. We use virtual 2012 server and qnap storage (which are very fast). Any ideas? Andy I posted this in office forum as well but its not as busy as this forum.

We use office 2010 and 2013. When a class of say 25-30 try to open an office doc such as a powerpoint template, it will take minutes for the doc to open for any of them. This only happens when they all try at approx the same time. The doc may only be 100k in size so its not a network issue as such, they all have new i5 pc's 1gb network to switch and 4gb to storage. We use virtual 2012 server and qnap storage (which are very fast). Any ideas? Andy

I would suggest you get some qualifications, especially if you want to work outside of a school at a later date. You can do these yourself while working, buy books set up a small lab, pay for the exam yourself. Most employers don't want to pay for training etc.

We use 2012, discovery image was from 64bit win , then we load a 64 bit windows 7 image.

A fix for Toshiba C50 none pxe boot in csm mode. thats a days labour you owe me tosh. This fix is a re hash of several forum posts. Connect to WDS from a USB memory stick Did this on windows 7 Pro Install Windows AIK tools (downloadable). From the WDS MMC snap-in create a discovery image from boot.wim or the appropriate boot image. Format and make the USB drive partition active using diskpart. Windows 7 OS. Cmd - cd to the usb drive: diskpart select disk 1 select partition 1 format fs=ntfs override quick active assign • Copy the folder ‘boot’ from C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\x86\boot to the USB drive • Create a folder named ‘Sources’ on the USB drive • Copy the discovery file created earlier to the ‘Sources’ folder on the USB drive name - boot.wim • Copy ‘bootmgr’ from C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\x86 to the root of the USB drive • Install the Windows 7 boot loader: go to C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\x86\ • Run bootsect.exe /nt60 Set Bios to boot usb (or select boot device from menu) Install image, remove usb Set bios to boot hdd All done This should work on any pc booting to wds.

The settings to be checked are on the dhcp server option 66 or 67, but you only set them if its not the same subnet. I did try it for curiosity and did get an ip address then it timed out on tftp. All our other laptops work fine on default settings.

Yes, we have the windows 8 .wim.

I tried that, it just hangs at the boot logo.

In UEFI mode it boots to WDS and downloads the image etc but then won't boot.. Ill try bypassing the pxe see what happens. Been I long time since I did that!

They are - C50-A-15Q

Done all that thanks. Was talking to Toshiba this morning again!! They are trying to tell me C50 laptop is designed for Windows 8 and with that in mind, tough luck basically! what about other OS's? sorry designed for windows 8. C850 which we have some of, work fine and they are designed for "windows 8" as well according to the sticker. I said its a Bios problem as it boots to pxe in uefi, but not csm. They can't do anything as they don't have the facility/Skills..."this is tech support", I asked who deals with bios issues etc, they said Toshiba Japan... So he's going to send a couple of emails, but no response time or idea of one... Pity because the latest batches of Toshiba laptops "before these" are really good.

Anyone else got a C50 who can try a WDS boot in csm mode ???

We have just bought several Toshiba C50 laptops. Configured Bios to use CSM in bios, we are connecting to WDS to install Win7 pro image. All previous Toshiba's work fine connecting etc. These C50's will not connect to WDS, PXE-E53 no boot filename received.... They will boot to PXE using UEFI................ Toshiba don't seem interested, they say hey only support networking from an installed OS...

Case closed. Thanks

Windows movie maker is free easy and pretty good for basic editing.

Suppose you've tried running in XP compatibility mode?

I have logged into adobe licencing and we do not have any downloadable options. When we purchased we got a hard copy cd pack, we went through a software reseller who for some reason did not add downloadable products to the order they also used their own name as the purchaser contact and I had a bit of a job getting adobe to accept we were the official owners. So we still have no cd or download. !!

Hi We have a site licence (500) for Adobe CS3 Web Standard. We have lost our cd and copies during the summer. After trying unsuccessfully to obtain a new copy of the media I am hoping someone can supply a cd copy (disk 1) or a download. I downloaded the trial copy and attempted to activate but its not a volume version. If anyone can help we would be very gratefull. Any cost will be reimbursed. regards Andrew Brough

Lots of people said the scales don't mean a lot as they differ around the country so here is another poll using £'s as the variable. I know the nm's job differs depending on School/area, this is just a general poll to get an idea. I'm sure a lot of you will be interested to see the results. I'll do one for Ict technician's as well if anyone asks...